With the advent of faster, better, and cheaper missions, NASA Projects acknowledged that a higher level of risk was inherent and acceptable with this approach. It was incumbent however upon each component of the Project, whether spacecraft, payload, launch vehicle or ground data system, to ensure that the mission would nevertheless be an unqualified success.
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